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For the state pageant affiliated with Miss USA, see Miss Louisiana USA.
The Miss Louisiana competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Louisiana in the Miss America pageant. For many years Miss New Orleans was the state's representative.
Although no delegate from this state has ever won the Miss America title, four have placed first runner-up
Winners
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age | Local Title | Miss America Talent | Placement at Miss America | Special scholarships at Miss America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Hope Anderson[1] | Monroe | 22 | Miss Spirit of Ruston | Dance "Sway" | Top 10 at Miss America 2012 | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2009 | |
| 2010 | Kelsi Crain | Monroe | 20 | Miss University of Louisiana at Monroe | Ballet en Pointe "Victory" | |||
| 2009 | Katherine Putnam | Oak Grove | 23 | Miss Shreveport | Piano "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah | 3rd runner-up at Miss America 2010 | CMN Miracle Maker Award winner | |
| 2008 | Blair Abene | Hammond | 22 | Miss Lincoln Parish | Classical Vocal "Nessun dorma" | Top 10 at National Sweetheart 2006; Teen Louisiana 2002 | ||
| 2007 | Amanda Joseph | Pineville | 21 | Miss Bossier City | Ballet en Pointe "Canned Heat" | |||
| 2006 | Jamie Wilson | Minden | 23 | Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival | Vocal "Like We Never Loved at All" | Contestant at National Sweetheart 2005 | ||
| 2005 | Molly Causey | Ruston | 22 | Miss Shreveport | Piano "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" | 4th runner-up (2002) & Contestant (2004) at National Sweetheart; Teen Louisiana 1999 | ||
| 2004 | Jennifer Dupont | Plaquemine | 23 | Miss Ouachita Parish | Jazz Dance "The Life of the Party" from The Wild Party | 1st runner-up at Miss America 2005 | Preliminary Swimsuit | Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1998, Miss Louisiana USA 2000 |
| 2003 | Melissa Clark | Ruston | 23 | Miss Louisiana Tech University | Vocal "The Prayer" | Contestant (2000) & Winner (2001) at National Sweetheart; Teen Louisiana 1998 | ||
| 2002 | Casey Crowder | Shreveport | 23 | Miss Ark-La-Miss Fair | Vocal Medley "This Can't Be Love" & "Almost Like Being in Love" | Teen Louisiana 1995 | ||
| 2001 | Kati Guyton | Bossier City | 23 | Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival | Vocal "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime | Teen Louisiana 1996 | ||
| 2000 | Faith Jenkins | Shreveport | 24 | Miss Louisiana Lagniappe | Vocal "If I Could" | 1st runner-up at Miss America 2001 | Preliminary Talent Award, Preliminary Swimsuit Award, Quality of Life Award | Won the most scholarship money in the history of Miss America Pageant to date. |
| 1999 | Julie Lawrence | Destrehan | 22 | Miss Louisiana Stock Show | Ballet en Pointe "I, Don Quixote" from Man of La Mancha | Preliminary Talent Award, Non-finalist Talent Award, Miss America Scholar | Competed in the 1998 National Sweetheart Pageant | |
| 1998 | Heather Dupree | Baton Rouge | 21 | Miss Louisiana Lagniappe | Ventriloquism "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)" | Previously Miss Louisiana Teen USA 1993 | ||
| 1997 | Mette Boving | Ruston | 24 | Miss Holiday in Dixie | Popular Vocal "How Do I Live" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1996 | Erika Schwarz | Folsom | 24 | Miss St. Tammany Parrish | Original Piano Composition "New Orleans Rhapsody" | 1st runner-up | 2nd runner-up Quality of Life Award | Entertainment lawyer, judged the Miss America Pageant in 2006, was the "pageant coach" on the 2007 Miss America Pageant School special. |
| 1995 | Karmyn Tyler | Shreveport | 20 | Miss City of Roses | Classical Vocal "Tu che di gel sei cinta" | Non-finalist Talent Award | represented Arkansas in Miss Oktoberfest 1997, did not place | |
| 1994 | Tiffany Mock | Bossier City | 23 | Miss Shreveport | Vocal "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart" | |||
| 1993 | Catherine Teague | Shreveport | 20 | Miss Natchitoches City of Lights | Vocal "Listen To My Heart" | |||
| 1992 | Elizabeth Haynes | Baton Rouge | 24 | Miss Caddo Lake | Piano Medley "El Cumbanchero" & "Cumana" | |||
| 1991 | Christi Page | Ruston | 21 | Miss Caney Lake | Piano / Vocal "Great Balls of Fire" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1990 | Linnea Fayard | Shreveport | 22 | Miss Louisiana Super Derby Festival | Vocal "Stormy Weather" | 4th runner-up at Miss America 1991 | ||
| 1989 | Stacy King | Slidell | 23 | Miss Louisiana Deep South | Banjo Medley "Dueling Banjos" & "Ghost Riders" | Prelminary Swimsuit Award, Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1988 | Valerie Brosset | West Monroe | 21 | Miss Louisiana Stockshow | Contemporary Ballet "Singin' in the Rain" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1989 | Preliminary Swimsuit Award | |
| 1987 | Patricia Brant | Monroe | 23 | Miss Red River Valley | Ventriloquism "Arizona Yodeler" & "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" | 1st runner-up at Miss America 1988 | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1986 | Amanda Mainord | Baton Rouge | 20 | Miss Louisiana State University | Vocal "When You Wish upon a Star" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Toured with the 1987 Gillette Miss America Show Troupe | |
| 1985 | Carol Carter | Shreveport | 20 | Miss Louisiana State University | Vocal "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin | Later Miss Louisiana USA 1987 & toured with USO troupe | ||
| 1984 | Nita Whitaker | Shreveport | 24 | Miss Louisiana Forest Festival | Popular Vocal "Over the Rainbow" | |||
| 1983 | Miriam Gauthier | Shreveport | 19 | Miss Bossier City | Piano "Toccata" by Antonio Tauriello | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1982 | Bobbie Candler | Baton Rouge | 25 | Miss Baton Rouge | Semi-Classical Vocal "With a Song in My Heart" | Non-finalist Talent Award | Former National Sweetheart Pageant winner 1979 | |
| 1981 | Donese Worden | Monroe | 22 | Miss Northeast Louisiana University | Violin Solo "Millionaire's Hoe-Down" | |||
| 1980 | Martha "Missy" Crews | Baton Rouge | 22 | Miss Baton Rouge | Ballet en Pointe "Jet Song" from West Side Story | Toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1979 | Myrrah McCully | Monroe | 24 | Miss North Louisiana Paperland | Piano "Khachaturian's Piano Concerto" | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1978 | Phyllis Kelly | Baton Rouge | 20 | Miss Southeastern Louisiana University | Classical Vocal "Italian Street Song" | Top 10 Semi-finalist at Miss America 1979 | ||
| 1977 | Donna Holt | Tioga | 21 | Miss Plain Dealing Dogwood | Semi-Classical Vocal "My Tribute" | |||
| 1976 | Candy Sue Crocker | Hammond | 22 | Miss Plain Dealing Dogwood | Vocal / Tap Dance "Swanee" | |||
| 1975 | Becky Wilson | Bossier City | 23 | Miss Louisiana Watermelon Festival | Vocal "Corner of the Sky" from Pippin | |||
| 1974 | Libby Lovejoy | Sulphur | 21 | Miss Lake Charles | Classical Ballet en Pointe "The Grenadiers" | 4th runner-up | ||
| 1973 | Debbie Ward | Baton Rouge | Miss Delhi | Vocal Medley "A Heart That's Free" "I Enjoy Being a Girl" & "I Could Have Danced All Night" | 3rd runner-up | Preliminary Talent Award | Featured performer and co-host of the Miss America pageant 1974-1977 | |
| 1972 | Debby Robert | Baton Rouge | 21 | Miss Baton Rouge | Classical Vocal "The Art of Beguiling" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | Preliminary Talent Award | |
| 1971 | Avis Cochran | Shreveport | 19 | Miss Shreveport | Acrobatic Dance "Theme from Exodus" | toured with Miss America USO Troupe | ||
| 1970 | Carol Almand | Haynesville | 18 | Miss Homer | Vocal "The Wedding" | |||
| 1969 | Sharon Branaman | New Iberia | 19 | Miss Lafayette | Classical Vocal "Olympia's Aria" from The Tales of Hoffmann | |||
| 1968 | Susanne Saunders | Shreveport | 18 | Miss Northeast Louisiana State College | Popular Vocal "I Can See It" | |||
| 1967 | Genevieve Del Gallo | New Orleans | 21 | Miss New Orleans | Classical Vocal "Un Bel Di" from Madama Butterfly | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1966 | Joy Woods | New Orleans | 20 | Miss Northeast Louisiana State College | Oboe Solo / Dance | |||
| 1965 | Lynda Ferguson | Shreveport | 20 | Miss Shreveport | Semi-Classical Vocal "Italian Street Song" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||
| 1964 | Cherie Martin | Pineville | 19 | Miss Rapides Parrish | Toreador Dance & Baton Twirling | Non-finalist Talent Award | ||
| 1963 | Linda Gail Baucum | Springhill | Miss Springhill | Modern Jazz - South American Rock-Umba Dance | When the original winner, Judy Cathey, was announced she stepped up to the microphone and resigned the title on the spot so she could get married and Linda was named the new winner. Competed in the 1962 Miss Teenage America Pageant | |||
| 1962 | Diana Jane Smith | Oak Ridge | 21 | Miss Bastrop | Organ Medley "Lady of Spain" & "Sabre Dance" | |||
| 1961 | Lyndra Frances Pate | Shreveport | 20 | Miss Bastrop | Vocal "The House I Live In" | |||
| 1960 | Judith Ann Coday | Baton Rouge | 20 | Miss Baton Rouge | Vocal Medley | |||
| 1959 | Mary Mills Hawkins | Lake Providence | 22 | Miss Baton Rouge | Piano | |||
| 1958 | Alberta Louise Futch | Hammond | Miss Tangipahoa Parish | Fire Baton Twirling | ||||
| 1957 | Beverly Leigh Norman | Shreveport | Miss Caddo Parish | Vocal | Competed in the 1958 Miss Dixie Pageant | |||
| 1956 | Bobbie Chachere | Baton Rouge | Miss Baton Rouge | Dance | Non-finalist Talent Award | Competed in the 1957 Miss Dixie Pageant | ||
| 1955 | Jan Aline Johnston | Ruston | Miss Ruston | Drama | ||||
| 1954 | Gail Gleason | Shreveport | Miss Louisiana Polytechnic Institute | Piano & Art | ||||
| 1953 | Sonya Lee LeBlanc | Baton Rouge | Miss Baton Rouge | Dance | ||||
| 1952 | Barbara Barker | Monroe | Drama "The Fog" | Top 10 Semi-finalist | ||||
| 1951 | Jeanne Thompson | Baton Rouge | Dance | Future Miss Louisiana USA 1952-1953 | ||||
| 1950 | Rowena Taliaferro | Winnsboro | ||||||
| 1949 | Annie Hollingsworth | Baton Rouge | ||||||
| 1947 | Ruth Mary Blust | New Orleans | Vocal "This Song Is You" | |||||
| 1946 | Marguerite McClelland | Baton Rouge | Classical Vocal "Voices of Spring" | 3rd runner-up | ||||
| Joyce Josephine Frink* | New Orleans | |||||||
| 1945 | Helene Shively* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1944 | Wilhelmina Hoffman* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1943 | Shirley Catherine Lange* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1942 | Edna Joyce* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1941 | Helen Yvonne Englert* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1940 | Pauline Powell* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1939 | Frances Helen Anello* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1938 | Irene Blush Schomberger* | New Orleans | Vocal / Trumpet / Dance | |||||
| 1937 | Gussie Short | Winnsboro | ||||||
| Gertrude Rissie Miller* | New Orleans | Top 15 Semi-finalist | ||||||
| 1936 | Doris Huet* | New Orleans | ||||||
| 1933 | Marjorie Hagler | 17 | Top 10 Semi-finalist | |||||
| 1927 | Gladys Renya Moore* | |||||||
| 1926 | Edna du Vernay* | |||||||
| 1925 | Thelma Roeling* | |||||||
| 1924 | Louise Moore* | Top 10 Semi-finalist | There was also a Miss Algiers who competed in the pageant but whose name is not known | |||||
| 1923 | * | |||||||
| 1922 | Maud Allison Price* |
* Competed in Miss America pageant as Miss New Orleans
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